Contractor Armies: An Unconstitutional and Dangerous Trend

The proliferation of shadow armies of mercenaries, numbering more than the number of actual US government troops, is a dangerous trend. A must read is Jeremy Scahill's book entitled Blackwater:The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army. It's available at amazon.com.

Here's an article on the same subject from Commondreams.org:

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/18/2618/